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Paralyzed patients communicate thoughts via brain-computer interface

Reuters: Science - Posted: January 31st, 2017, 2:24pm UTC

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface that reads the brain's blood oxygen levels and enables communication by deciphering the thoughts of patients who are totally paralyzed and unable to talk.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=evXhVWxH0Ig:zV8xIT6kpEM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=evXhVWxH0Ig:zV8xIT6kpEM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=evXhVWxH0Ig:zV8xIT6kpEM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=evXhVWxH0Ig:zV8xIT6kpEM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=evXhVWxH0Ig:zV8xIT6kpEM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/evXhVWxH0Ig" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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